SmartBin generates real-time tracking data to assure compliance with waste management regulations

SmartBin has announced it has patented the only technology that can both keep customers in full compliance with data security and waste management regulations, while saving them time and money in the process. The SmartBin monitoring technology allows those with the responsibility of managing bin-fill, ranging from textiles, paper, glass, plastic or waste, to know the exact fill level in real time via the SmartBin advanced Web portal.

SmartBin technology has up-to-the-minute knowledge of the chain of possession and disposition of materials, which allows companies with bin-essential businesses to track and schedule pickups for a more efficient route. Rather than relying on a universal pickup schedule that may result in bins being emptied at less-than-optimal fill levels, SmartBin informs clients when their bins are reaching capacity. For a single company to bring such vast enhancements to the management of such a wide range of waste materials is truly revolutionary.

At the heart of SmartBin’s success is its technology, which combines innovative wireless telemetry and Web access technologies. Developed by company Founder & CEO Mark McCarville, a 20-year veteran of the IT and telecom industries, SmartBin’s solution measures bin fill-level by using infrared or ultrasonic technology sensors to determine the distance from the top of the waste to the top of the bin container. These reliable and rugged sensors also employ intelligent processing to eliminate the errors associated with random blocking events.

SmartBin sensors measure a range of parameters, including bin fill level, bin empty events, battery level and other key parameters at set times during 24-hour cycles. That information is then sent via standard cellular networks to SmartBin’s host servers. From there, SmartBin customers can see all of that information for as many bins as they operate, anywhere in the world, at any time, and view it in any number of collated ways from SmartBin’s database.

SmartBin solutions can be applied across a range of categories, from recycled materials to document destruction to medical waste and electronic waste (e-waste), with fluid measurement also planned for the future.

The cost-savings implications of these capabilities are enormous. Remotely monitored bins will now be emptied only when full, significantly reducing manpower allocation, fuel costs and emissions/carbon footprint. Information collected from monitored bins offers clients precise traceability of contents and their disposition. SmartBin ensures that the fixed cost infrastructure associated with the collection of waste and the processing of incoming waste can be more efficiently managed, as the volumes are more predictable.

SmartBin also generates alarms and alerts when the bin is critically full, ensuring the problems associated with overflowing bins can be eliminated, reducing the cost of site cleanup and contributing significantly to an enhanced perception of the client to the community. Furthermore, the reporting and auditing capabilities inherent in SmartBin solutions facilitate the generating of management process reports increasingly required for regulatory compliance.

SmartBin is the complete solution to the contemporary challenges in recycled waste material management. Competing systems are inherently less efficient, less effective and less reliable. SmartBin’s solutions are easy to use – the company supplies and maintains the monitoring equipment; receives, stores and collates the data and makes it available to the client via its highly user-friendly Web portal.

“We’re looking forward to expanding our presence in the North American markets,” says McCarville. “We firmly believe that SmartBin has the ultimate solution for recycled waste management for the 21st century, one that will bring significant benefit to our clients everywhere.”

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